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Can someone help me puzzle out this tweet? It's from a twenty-something Bavarian:

wir holen das in wien nächstes jahr in voller länge, mit schnapsküssen und vielen songs nach! sorry, aber ich kurier mich aus!!!

I understand that he's saying he is going to go party now and he will return to Vienna next year, but what exactly is he saying? This is what ( Read more... )

It's expressly permitted in the rules or I'd just do a workaround ( Read more... )

I have some questions about translating Spanish into English. They are pretty mundane.

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My uncle's involved in our town's twinning with a town in Germany and he's asked me to translate something to be engraved on a plaque for their upcoming visit. He wants it to say ( Read more... )

My fiancé sent me this link earlier today:

Chinese menu: "Wood flower picks sea cucumber hoof"I thought the wonderful mangling of the English translation was...interesting ( Read more... )

Speaking of interestingly translated Chinese menus (they were brought up here yesterday, after all), there were photos of an absolutely hilarious menu posted in engrish recently. Though there was no Wikipedia for dessert, there were some equally exotic dishes to be found ( Read more... )

From metaquotesBy the way! I have a story to share with you all. The other day, I was in this fancy Italian/French restaurant (where I had Escargot, but that's another story) and so they had fancy English under the usual Chinese names. They're pretty accurate, until I read about desserts. Under the Chinese for cheesecake, was the English word, " ( Read more... )

the other day my mom bought one of those wall plaques that have quotations on them, and on the french side of the box 'wall plaque' was translated as 'mur de plaque'. am i missing something here? shouldn't it say 'plaque de mur'?

thanks for any help :)

So early this morning on CNN they showed the famine going on in Niger, particularly with the kids. They showed a doctor who was from an organization called - hold on to your seats - "Medicines without Frontiers."

Edit: Sorry, I guess it wasn't obvious to some people. The official French name is Médecins Sans Frontières. The official English name ( Read more... )